Learner-Centered Methods

In this chapter about Learner-Centered Methods, it exposed and illustrated the pedagogy both, from its earlier and its later versions. so, it focused on the learner and emphasized on communication that have certainly made the pedagogy very popular, and particularly among language teachers around the world, some of whom take pride in calling themselves “communicative language teachers”. Also,  the greatest achievement of learner-centered pedagogists is that they successfully directed the attention of the language-teaching profession to aspects of language other than grammatical structures, by  treating language as discourse, not merely as system, they tried to move classroom teaching away from a largely systemic orientation that relied upon a mechanical rendering of pattern practices and more toward a largely communicative orientation that relied upon a partial simulation of meaningful exchanges that take place outside the classroom. In conclusion, learners must pay greater attention to communication as a social behavior, as the activity approximates a communicative situation the learners may encounter outside the classroom. The focus here is not just formal and functional effectiveness, but also social appropriateness.